Nelson v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2015
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Betlach v. Wayzata Condominium · Litchfield v. Ballou · Marr v. Bradley · Conley v. Downing · Summers v. Midland Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of a lis pendens is to warn prospective purchasers that title to property is in litigation which impedes a property owner's right to free alienability of real estate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The vendor holds the legal title merely as security for the payment of the purchase price. He has a lien thereon for his claim.... The vendee is the equitable and substantial owner subject only to the payment of the balance of the purchase price. Possession is important. He cannot be ousted by the vendor in the absence of default.... The vendor holds the title in trust for the vendee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.